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The livestream is now also a podcast! Join Jason, Jordan, and Brian as they talk homebrewing with professionals across the Michigan craft beer industry (and sometimes a little out of state!) The show has a heavy emphasis on homebrewing and brewing beer/mead/cider/seltzer in general. We're passionate about the hobby of homebrewing and want everyone to be as successful as they can be. We started this show during quarantine in attempt to satiate our desire to talk about brewing with people while club meetings all went to virtual or were cancelled all together. Sometimes we stray off topic, sometimes the audio isn't great, sometimes we drink a little too much... But it's what we like to do in real life and so we decided to just do it live instead and see if anyone wanted to join in, which people have! Podcasts will appear within 48 hours of our live show ending. Catch our live shows most Mondays at 7:30pm EST. We stream to Youtube, Facebook, and Twitch! Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MichiganBrews Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MIBrews Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/michiganbrews Contact us at: michigan.brews.show@gmail.com
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Monday Mar 22, 2021
Monday Mar 22, 2021
We talk about best practices for making mead from the comfort of your own home. We'll touch on a lot of introductory topics like water, honey varietals, nutrients, yeast choice and so on. Depending on how it goes we may make it a multi part series where we go into different styles of mead in later episodes like big sugary Schramm's style mead, or bubbly refreshing session meads. Skål!
Monday Mar 15, 2021
Monday Mar 15, 2021
We hang out with John Mallett, VP of Operations at Bell's Brewery, and literally the guy that wrote the book on Malt (pick up the Brewing Elements book, it's seriously great). John has had a long career in the beer industry doing everything from brewing, to engineering, to teaching, and operations work. And obviously also writing! Join us as we pick his brain and, as always, just have a great time hanging out!
Monday Mar 01, 2021
Monday Mar 01, 2021
We hang out with Brian Confer, Co-Owner/Head Brewer and Chris Schnepf, Lead Brewer at Stormcloud Brewing Company in Frankfort Michigan. We will be sampling some of their Belgian inspired beers and getting to know more about this awesome northern Michigan brewery.
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Monday Feb 22, 2021
Hey folks are are back again with another Homebrew Review show! We are going to be trying a few beers and a mead donated by Kevin Penn and James Hancock of Livingston Social Brew Club... And we will do our best to tell you what we think :) Please remember we are by no means certified to officially taste beer in any capacity, and our feed back is strictly for entertainment purposes only. So grab a homebrew and come hang out with us. What better way to chill out on a Monday evening!
Monday Feb 15, 2021
Monday Feb 15, 2021
It's another Monday! We're still organizing a Homebrew Review for 2/22/21, but in the meantime just want to have a chill night with ya'll. We've had a lot of guests on lately (which has been amazing!) but want to just step back a sec and talk about what we learned as brewers over the last year. But of course we don't want it to be all about us. We want to hear how all of you feel like you've grown too. Let's talk homebrew, wine, mead, etc. and just have an awesome Monday night together.
Monday Feb 01, 2021
Monday Feb 01, 2021
We're back again with Dana Wagner from Discover Kalamazoo and John Liberty from West Michigan Beer Tours to talk about the 2021 Kalamazoo Craft Beverage Week (formerly known as Kalamazoo Beer Week). This week we have the privilege of talking with Barry Travis and Brian Bastien from The Mill at Vicksburg. For those unfamiliar with The Mill, Envision a campus – home to multiple breweries, barley malting and hops processing facilities, a local producers marketplace, retail & even live music! Construction is ongoing but we're really excited to hear all about it! Grab a beer and come hang out with us!
Monday Jan 25, 2021
Monday Jan 25, 2021
This week we are going to be hanging out with Dana Wagner from Discover Kalamazoo and John Liberty from West Michigan Beer Tours to talk about the 2021 Kalamazoo Craft Beverage Week (formerly known as Kalamazoo Beer Week), and how they have modified the event this year to work within the current precautions and restrictions. Kalamazoo Craft Beverage Week will be kicking off on January 29th and will run through February 6th. The event has been expanded this year to include more Kalamazoo makers, adding local distilleries and wineries to join in with the breweries and celebrate the craft beverage industry as a whole. To give us a sneak peak of this year’s KBW, we are also going to be joined by Kevin and Michael Christensen, and Kevin Homan from Final Gravity Brewing! Final Gravity will have a few events taking place during KBW at their Kalamazoo location, and is also close to completing an expansion of their Decatur location, so there will be lots of cool stuff to chat about there. Grab a beer and come hang out with us!
Monday Jan 11, 2021
Monday Jan 11, 2021
We are excited to be hanging out with Michigan’s own country music superstar, Drew Jacobs! We will be having a few beers and maybe some bourbon... while we chat with Drew and learn more about his music and Michigan roots.
Monday Jan 04, 2021
Monday Jan 04, 2021
We talk about heavily fruited / smoothie beers. Don't mind as we go off topic and hit a few of the other fads of the last year, and maybe even see if we can guess what the next fad in 2021 will be!
Monday Dec 28, 2020
Monday Dec 28, 2020
A surprise show! Join us tomorrow night as we do a 2020 year in review. Come hang out as we remember the cool guests that helped us kick this show off this year! (As well as all the times we went off topic, Jason got drunk and talked to much, Jordan got drunk and smiled at the camera, or we listened to Brian get drunk and ramble on about the science of brewing.) So come hang out and hit it one more time for 2020!